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NEIGHBORHOOD SLOW STREETS: MT. HOPE/CANTERBURY

April 16, 2019 | Public Meeting The Home for Little Wanderers

Boston Transportation Department Gina N. Fiandaca, Commissioner

MEETING GOALS

• Introduce more residents to the Neighborhood Slow Streets project

• Share our concept plans for your feedback

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VISION ZERO BOSTON

• Commitment to eliminate all fatal and serious injuries by 2030

• Designing for the most vulnerable benefits everyone

• “Early Action” policy in Go Boston 2030

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SLOWER SPEEDS, SAFER STREETS

Source: Impact Speed and a Pedestrian’s Risk of Severe Injury or Death, Brian Tefft, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2011 4

NEIGHBORHOOD SLOW STREETS

A zone-based approach to traffic-calming requests • A bounded area of local streets • Speed limit reduced to 20 MPH • Self-enforced lower speeds through targeted

traffic-calming techniques

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WHY ZONE-BASED?

• Avoid the “transfer effect” • Drivers seek alternate

routes • Traffic and/or speeds may

increase on parallel routes without traffic calming

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PROGRAM GOALS

• Reduce vehicle speeds • Fewer crashes resulting in injury or

property damage • Improved perception of safety • Quality of life benefits

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MT. HOPE/CANTERBURY DESIGN PLAN

DESIGN PLAN PRESENTATION

• Zone-wide measures • Intersection of Canterbury St/Mt Hope

St/Mt Calvary Rd • Mt Calvary Rd • Intersection of Canterbury St/Paine St • Mt Hope Rd • Harding Rd and Hadwin Way

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ZONE-WIDE: SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION

As people enter the zone: • 20 MPH speed limit

signs • Supplemented with

20 MPH pavement marking

Stonybrook NSS 10

ZONE-WIDE: SPEED HUMPS

Our primary measure to control speeds in the zone. Located on: • Mt Hope St • Paine St • Canterbury St • Mt Calvary Rd

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SPEED HUMPS ARE NOT SPEED BUMPS!

YES! Gradual taper up and down, 12 to 14 feet long

NO! Abrupt, hard bump, 3 to 4 feet long

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SPEED HUMPS

• Located on property lines (where feasible)

• Not located at driveways or intersections

• Spaced approx. 200’-250’ • No impact on parking • No impact on drainage • Cannot be used on hills

or too close to a curve Stonybrook NSS

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CANTERBURY/MT HOPE/MT CALVARY

Last time, we shared two options: • Mini-circle • Squared-off intersections Neighborhood feedback was mixed, slight preference for squared-off intersection

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CANTERBURY/MT HOPE/MT CALVARY

• With engineering survey, determined “circle” infeasible

• Squared intersection – All-way Stop control – Shorter crossings – Pending coordination

on driveway

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MT CALVARY RD

• No changes to circulation patterns

• Strategic speed hump placement to protect informal access point to Cemetery

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CANTERBURY ST/PAINE ST

• Remove excess pavement to clarify intersection function – Improve compliance

with STOP and Do Not Enter signs

– Allow turn-around movement

• Retain existing closure of Mt Canterbury

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CANTERBURY ST/PAINE ST

• Allow contraflow bike movement on Paine? – Completes an

alternative route between Cummins and Walk Hill

– Could use signs only to avoid any driver confusion

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MT HOPE RD

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Last time, we shared two options: • Parking chicane • Speed humps and contraflow bike lane Neighborhood feedback favored speed humps and contraflow bike lane

MT HOPE RD

• Contraflow bike lane along north side of street – “Except Bikes” added to

Do Not Enter signs – Bike-sized stop sign at

Hyde Park Ave • No changes to parking • Speed humps spaced

200’-250’ 21

MT HOPE RD

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Stop sign for bicyclists at Hyde Park Ave

Intersection markings to highlight bike lane “Except bikes” added

HARDING RD AND HADWIN WAY

• Harding Rd changes to one-way toward Cummins from Hadwin Way

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OUR NEXT STEPS APRIL 2019 • Public meeting # 2 to share final plans

• Refine design, as needed, based on your and your neighbors’ feedback

LATE SPRING 2019 • Seek approval from Public Improvements Commission

• Final design review by BTD and PWD • Bid construction contract

SUMMER 2019 • Schedule construction with Public Works (Construction is fully-funded for Fiscal Year 2020, covering July 2019 through June 2020)

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THANK YOU

boston.gov/slow-streets/mount-hope visionzero@boston.gov

MT HOPE/CANTERBURY DATA

Shared at July 19, 2018 meeting, included as reference here

MT. HOPE ZONE Zone includes only the highlighted streets

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MT. HOPE ZONE

• More than 1 in 3 households have a child under 18

• Nearly 10% of residents are aged 65 or older

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CONCERNS WE HEARD

• Vehicle speeds • Canterbury St at Mt Hope

St & at Mt Calvary Rd – Sight lines, safe crossings for

school children

• Clarity and circulation within neighborhood – Canterbury/Paine,

Harding/Hadwin 29

OBSERVATIONS

• Group walk October 4, 2018 helped identify key issues

• Multiple site visits this spring (March-June) to observe how people use the streets 30

ACTIVE COMMUTES

• Of working residents, between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 are walking, taking transit, or bicycling regularly

• In addition, kids and young people heading to schools and buses

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21%

35%

TRAFFIC COUNTS

32 Locations approximate

• 5 mid-block counts – Mid-block counts

include vehicle speeds

• 4 intersection counts – Intersection counts tell

us if people turn or continue through

• Data collected in May 2018

TRAFFIC COUNTS

33 Locations approximate

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VEHICLE VOLUMES: AM PEAK (7:00-8:00)

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79

11

10 7

8

7 39

46 Paine St

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t

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VEHICLE VOLUMES: PM PEAK (4:15-5:15)

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212

104 82 7

6

14 41

16

Paine St

Wal

k H

ill S

t

113

VEHICLE SPEEDS (85th PERCENTILE)

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30 MPH

28 MPH 27 MPH

35 MPH

Wal

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MT HOPE ST SPEEDS & VOLUMES

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5 2 2 2 3 5 19

30 29 43 35 40 44 34 44

83 90 77 73

50 32 27

10 13 5 2 1 1 2 4

13

25 28 25

17 27

34 29

33

57

81

80

61

41

24 18

10 10 1

2 1 1 2 6

15

31 19 14

12

8

13 19

24

19

42

35

19

21

16

11

11 5

0 0 1 0 0 1

1

3 2

1

1 0

0 1

2

0

2

0

1

0

0

2

1 1

0

50

100

150

200

250

40+ mph

30-39 mph

25-29 mph

1-24 mph

Average of May 16 and 17, 2018